Property and business
Smart home design and specification for rental property, flips and small businesses
Heating that resets itself between tenancies, locks that stop the key-handover dance, and a written spec you can repeat across every unit you own. Nothing is sold to you here; the plan is the product.
What costs you money right now
- Heating left running in an empty unit between tenancies, and nobody notices until the bill.
- Key handovers, lost keys, and a locksmith every time someone moves out.
- A different app for every property, each with someone else’s login.
- Kit installed by the last owner that nobody understands and everyone is afraid to touch.
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What is included
- A remote survey of the first unit — your photographs and a call — and a written spec you can hand to any electrician.
- A map of what is already fitted and what can be kept.
- Heating, locks and lighting on one plan, with a tenant-facing one-page guide.
- Running-cost estimate per unit, with the source for every figure.
- A repeat spec priced per property for the rest of the portfolio.
Request a quote
A written spec for the first unit, quoted once we have talked. Repeats across a portfolio are quoted per property, and always cheaper than the first.
Questions landlords and owners ask first
Short answers. Where the honest answer depends on the building, it says so and the call sorts it.
Do you sell or install the equipment?
Neither, by default. I write the spec and you buy at the best price you can find. Where I can put you in front of a trade I trust, I say so, and it earns me nothing.
Can tenants change the settings?
The ones they should be able to, yes: the heating in their own rooms, the lights, the lock code they were given. What they cannot do is change the schedule that resets between tenancies or lock the next tenant out. The one-page guide says which is which.
What does it cost per unit?
The first unit carries the written spec; repeats across the portfolio are quoted per property and are always cheaper, because the spec is already done. The figure depends on the building, which is what your photographs and the first call are for.
Do you work with letting agents?
Yes, where the owner asks me to. The spec and the tenant guide are written so an agent can hand them over at check-in without needing me in the room.
Send the address of the unit that costs you most
A twenty-five-minute call and you will know whether a written spec is worth it. If it is not, I will say so.